Post Humanist Politics

Term:
Spring 2013

Subject Code:
GPOL

Course Number:
6449

This course surveys a series of challenges to liberal humanism, whichtend to get loosely grouped under posthumanism. We start with a shortset of readings about how the human is politically defined in thecurrent international landscape (as political subject of rights andobject of humanitarian intervention; as biological species; and ascalculating economic actor). The rest of the course considers a seriesof challenges to humanism in practice and theory, ranging from newmaterialisms to interspecies perspectives, from cyborg citizenship toanimal rights, focusing on how these emergent ideas and practices arechanging the political.